

It was just the tweak the game needed to propel it into specialness. Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance brought in engine improvements, improved graphics, improved UI, better pathfinding, the Seraphim and a certain "something" that is hard to place your finger on which just made the game feel right. However, you don't realize just how much better Supreme Commander could have been until you play Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance. This is not the Blizzard RTS style that slowly moved to hero units, this is old school RTS where each unit is a cog in the wheel of a machine of annihilation. Vast quantities of military units are flung into the maw of conflict as fast you can build them. Mediocrity to Great Game Score: 8/10 - A fan favorite only got better with a few key additions, and its longevity has been expanded too. Bloodmoon reintroduced werewolves which have become a perennial favorite in the series.īeyond the expansions, the Addon scene adds high rez textures and a cornucopia of additions to make Morrowind a tailored, fun experience. Tribunal, though the story may have been linear and isolated from the larger world of Morrowind, introduced a journal system which allowed you to set status of quests separately. Through a winding path of updates much of the game has been improved. With the Tribunal and Bloodmoon expansions, bug fixes and mods the legs of Morrowind have become insanely long. The game had game breaking bugs and for many the game just ceased to be interesting 3/4 of the way through. Morrowind launched with no way to track active quests. Morrowind, though often revered by grizzled veterans of the Elder Scrolls series was not without serious flaws. These are games that had a nugget of awesome, but just needed a bit of polishing by someone who loved them so we could see it. One of the things you will find about this Good to Great series is that these titles fit (mostly) in that realm of gameplay. Ste covered Maslow's Hierarchy of Game Design and that for many people is the blueprint for a good game. There are a certain group of magical games that become great because someone loves them enough to help them actualize.
